Example sentences of "be [adv] sort of " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , we do look for things on the papers to try and justify giving people marks , you know , we 're not sort of out to fail you . |
| 32 | a lot of them places yo , they 're not sort of like famous are they ? |
| 33 | They are mirrored , erm they 're not sort of based on these internal facilities . |
| 34 | You 're still sort of saying I get a discount really , you 're still saying it 's only going to cost me two hundred a year . |
| 35 | ‘ You 're more sort of , I do n't know , hurt . ’ |
| 36 | We 're more sort of settled down , matured more , I think . |
| 37 | I 'm responsible for the sort of overall management , but I tend not to get out as much as say , Area Housing Officers , they 're more sort of at grass roots . |
| 38 | And do you know those advert features that they do in the States , they 're like sort of like half hour adverts , like they 're like shows but they 're like an advert |
| 39 | And er we 're now sort of waiting to get serious enough . |
| 40 | Eleven to twelve , so you 're really sort of moderate preference , it 's not a , it 's not a strong preference a moderate preference and then the pragmatist again that 's quite high very strong preference is seventeen to twenty and again John edge of that . |
| 41 | Do you think a lot of people do that , or do you think you 're particularly sort of |
| 42 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 43 | really I mean what you 're almost sort of presiding over is a sort of steady decline , really , but on the other hand I think some people think if you can make that as erm as sort of dignified as you can and actually give them sort of support when they actually need it , |
| 44 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 45 | oh yes it 's the er West Worthing Club and do you have a regular , you know , partner you play with , is it er er a doubles match and who would cos you 're then sort of sounding out whether there 's referral business in that one . |
| 46 | Receive erm there are there are n't a lot of other words that do have C in well there are but they 're quite sort of awkward words like try deceive . |
| 47 | Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite |
| 48 | I mean they 're very sort of vandal easy or whatever . |
| 49 | The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them |
| 50 | It 's a good idea , but I do n't really see what you 're actually sort of measuring . |
| 51 | in relation to er adjustices erm we can not support the Liberal Democrats er motions in relation to er , to T five , Mrs 's is , is right in saying our representatives of , of Hertfordshire who represent her own who represent erm Hertfordshire , we are also sort of citizens of the United Kingdom and not to afternoon we , er what ever it is now . |
| 52 | Which are now sort of grown up but er known them all my life . |
| 53 | So although you would have I do n't know but I I hope I 'm not sort of I really am trying to find out although you 'd have his coffin in the front room where you would be living |
| 54 | er I mean I 'm not sort of trying to point the finger at her , but |
| 55 | You know , I 'm not sort of er |
| 56 | I 'm just sort of rushing through this a bit , and I 'm trying to show where the where most people get it wrong . |
| 57 | I just think the world ought to be more sort of organised . ’ |
| 58 | Not that I 'm any sort of expert but I had misspent much of a happy youth in the ‘ feeling lucky , punk ? ’ school of cinema and I could tell Clint Eastwood 's Magnum from , say , The Magnificent Seven's Colt .45s , blindfolded . |
| 59 | I 'm still sort of puzzling what the best thing , best thing to do for that hedge down there . |
| 60 | I 've never really been , like , single single cos I 'm always sort of like , not actually going out with somebody but I 'm always , I 've always got someone who sort of fancies me or I 'm flirting with . |